Tag: New England

Douthat continues to discover remedies for his condition, but his experience has produced a book in which the natural world confronts us with suffering’s source and signifies the possibility of redemption. The Deep Places elucidates creation’s shadow side, the abyss of suffering that leads us to search for answers to our most profound questions of creation, pain, and evil.

We lived now in a wrecked forest, but this is only the beginning.

They say that funerals are for the living, which of course they are. The deceased, now lifeless, causes us to reflect upon their life...

As the half-savage neighbor in Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” says, “Good fences make good neighbors.”